Thursday
Mar 27
2008
March 27 Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber with Grüvoria and DJ David Dacks
Advance tickets available at smallworldmusic.com
Butch Morris's Conduction System for orchestral improvisation is the preferred mode of channeling for this Gotham based ensemble of African-Americans, South Asians, Middle-Easterners, Oregonians, Minnesotans, Ohioans and Europeans. Everyone of them is a border crossing trans-national whether they'll admit it or not. Spontaneous combustion being an occupational hazard in Gotham, Burnt Sugar is how we keep it real, surreal, arboreal, aquatic, incendiary. If only because we might be mistaken for the world's second fully improvisational acid-funk band.
To quote Arthur Jafa, we don't strive to be original, but aboriginal. Like the songlines and the dreaming, like Tracey Moffatt and The Last Wave, like Cubase and Cabrini Green. One foot in the prehistoric, the other in the post human. In this journey, you're the journal and we're the journalists. Houston, do you read and whatnot. Oh, the utter negrocity of it all...
"Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber Began as a grand and noble idea that begat an ostensibly foolhardy enterprise, an updated Miles Davis Bitches Brew for the 23rd century with players who were conversant in a plethora of post-modern musical tongues. What it has become is one of the few modern music groups to freely mash-up any and all forms of vocal and instrumental music like it ain’t nobody’s business if they do. Burnt Sugar's got the nerve to claim Morton Feldman, Brian Eno and Steve Reich as progenitors alongside Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix and Vladislav Delay. Their player-ranks have been known to include devotees of Steve Lacy and Steve Coleman, Irish fiddlers, AACM refugees, Afropunk rockers, staunch beboppers, feminist hiphoppers, doowoppers, funkateers and rodeo stars of the digital divide." Greg Tate
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Setting the table will be Grüvoria, a 7-man powerhouse that serves up jazz-funk in the spirit of later vintage Miles Davis, Weather Report and the Mothers of Invention.
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